Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After playing third base as a sophomore on the J.V. squad, Ignacio broke into the varsity line-up at that position early in the season. He never played first before this year, but when coach Norm Shepard decided to make the shift, he managed to make the transition without harming his performance...
HAIR. Now that the hippie notion is fading away, a slickly packaged version of hippiedom has swung onto Broadway. The songs rock, the expletives explode and the energetic cast exuberates-but so quickly does U.S. society shift that the play's topics for dissent are often worn and dated. Director Tom O'Horgan achieves startling production effects even though distraction is certainly no substitute for destination...
Students are demanding the right to be heard on committees that change curriculums, shift degree requirements and grading practices. There is little doubt that they can make an immense contribution to such planning-and there is no question about the justice of their claim that many courses are, indeed, irrelevant. Harvard's law faculty is pleased with a student-initiated drive that liberalized its once-rigid curriculum, added numerous elective courses...
...educational system has institutionalized this shift. In fact, social scientists today "are carefully trained not to discover this," Bay added...
...source of the book's vitality is its language-supple and colloquial, yet framed in the syntax of surprise. The syncopated speech patterns constantly shift away from familiar formulations. In An Interest in Life, a deserted mother observes: a woman "gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, or she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, men must do well in the world. I know that men are not fooled by being happy...